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Everyone's gonna be on the lookout for a prank this year, so it wouldn't surprise me if nothing happened/Jeff just gives a bunch of the people on the forum random effects/Mods some people/something else that's obvious but still funny.

I've updated them once or twice as I've hit internal milestones, but I've definitely been a little bit too busy working on the new site and handling some personal stuff to write out new posts. Shortly after we finished production on SW:L I revisited the state of the new SP and made the decision to support up-coming web technologies that will greatly benefit user experience. I've rewritten the web server with full support for things like HTML streaming, HTTP/2, service workers, and the new Brotli compression format. I've also optimized the critical rendering path and asset delivery system to take advantage of these.

This was a tough call because it means another delay, but ultimately I think it's for the best because by the time SP comes out anyway these technologies will be more commonplace and we'll already be out of date. I'd rather just have the waiting period for the initial relaunch be a bit longer than to release something and immediately drop support on it to focus on implementing the new stuff. These improvements are important for our long-term goals for the site, especially for our foreign members who have a higher latency accessing our servers hosted in the US. Progress is steady but I'm just not going to be making any predictions about when we'll release from here on out. I know it's more gratifying to hear about specific dates and timelines, but due to the large nature of this overhaul and the fact that I am a one-man development team I think it's just safer to say that it'll be done when it's done.

Feel free to grill me if you want about the new site, if there's anything you guys are curious about. I'll answer as much as I am allowed at this point.